Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Chronicles 27:5

5 The third captain of the host for the third month, was Benajah the son of Jehojada a chief priest : and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

Or, the chief Priest. Or rather, a chief Prince, as this Hebrew Word is oft used, as Gen. 41. 45. & 47. 22. 2 Sam. 8. 18. & 20. 26. 1 King. 4. 5. 2 King. 10. 11. and elsewhere. Probably he was not onely a Captain of this Course, but a great Officer in the Court and State. For although the Priests might take up Arms in some special Cases, yet it is not likely that such were constant Officers in the Kings Army, especially seeing the rest of the Captains here named were of other Tribes. Besides, neither Benajah nor Jehojadah was High-Priest at that time, but Zadok or Abiathar, and before them Abimelech, in whom the Priesthood had been for a long time together, even in the days of Samuel and S[illegible: 1+ letters]ul and David and Solomon.

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